Mausolea And Monuments Trust
The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charity for the "protection and preservation of mausolea and funerary monuments situated in Great Britain and Ireland." The trust was founded in 1997 by the architectural historian Jill Allibone (1932–1998). Tim Knox, then the director of the Soane Museum and the trust's first chairman, described it as “the dottiest conservation cause in the land”. The trust has responsibility for six mausolea: * The Bateman Mausoleum, Morley, Derbyshire * The Heathcote Mausoleum, Hursley, Hampshire * The Wynne Ellis Mausoleum, Whitstable, Kent * The Nash Mausoleum, Farningham, Kent * The Guise Mausoleum, Elmore, Gloucestershire * The Boileau Mausoleum, Ketteringham, Norfolk The trust publishes a regular journal titled ''Mausolus'', and researches and maintains a gazetteer A gazetteer is a geographical index or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.Aurousseau, 61. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, s ...
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A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. Overview The word ''mausoleum'' (from Greek μαυσωλείον) derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Historically, mausolea were, and still may be, large and impressive constructions for a deceased leader or other person of importance. However, smaller mausolea soon became popular with the gentry and nobility in many countries. In the Roman Empire, these were often in necropoles or along roadsides: the via Appia Antica retains the ruins of many private mausolea for kilometres outside Rome. When ...
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